Botanical Garden
Launched in 2010, National University's botanical garden started
with 20 plants as a project of the Naturopathic Medical Student
Association. Today the garden is double its original size and
boasts over 60 different botanicals. Each plant nurtured in the
garden has a valuable application in botanical medicine.
The garden is a tool to enhance learning about botanicals. While
many botanical classes involve photographs of medicinal plants, in
spring, summer, and fall National University students can visit the
garden to plant, see, smell, and touch the actual plants. In
extracurricular sessions, students often use the garden plants to
make herbal medicines and tinctures for their own personal
use.
The garden is maintained by National University's naturopathic medicine
students under the guidance of naturopathic medicine faculty. The
botanical garden is part of a campus culture that supports the full
traditional education in naturopathic medicine available at
National University.
